Dovgodko T. General Scientific Training of Foreign Students for Studies in an Aviation University.

The thesis deals with the problem of formation of general scientific readiness of foreign students for studies in an aviation university. The historic and methodical analysis of foreign students' studies in the Ukrainian higher educational institutions is presented and the main objective of propaedeutic general scientific training of foreign students for studies in an aviation university is clarified. The range of the main characteristics that identify syntality of foreign students' groups, representatives of various world regions (Vietnamese and Chinese, Arabs, French- and English speaking Africans, Latin Americans) is defined. The core of the concept "the general scientific readiness of foreign students for studies in an aviation university" is identified. The organisational and pedagogical conditions of formation of the general scientific readiness of foreign students for studies in an aviation university are specified, substantiated and tested experimentally. The methods, based on those conditions are improved and the structural and functional model of the general scientific training of foreign students for studies in an aviation university is developed.